I become a god in another world

Chapter 423: Restarting the Journey

Chapter 423

Zhao Fusheng could feel Liu Yizhen's gaze, but she did not show any guilt.

She rested her chin on her palm and stared at the child's collar calmly, but her thoughts returned to Wenxing County.

……

After the ghost officer Horse-Faced Guard entered the county, he walked around the city holding a ghost lantern.

The ghosts that died in this ghost rain and the revived evil spirits quietly followed the ghost lantern, forming a terrifying moving ghost tide.

The black air was overwhelming, and the leader was just a horse-faced ghost holding a lantern.

The evil spirit of the ghost was so strong that it frightened all the ghosts.

Under the cover of night, fog gathered in the city, and countless water droplets floated in the air, forming a disaster-level ghost.

The evil ghost was lured by the ghost lantern and appeared in front of the horse-faced demon.

Dark clouds gathered above Yinchai's head, and then in an instant turned into heavy rain that poured down.

This ghost rain is extraordinary. Wherever it goes, it can form a unique marking pattern of evil spirits.

The ground where the ghost was standing turned into a swamp in an instant, and countless footprints appeared under the feet of the horse-faced demon.

The ghost that died in this ghost disaster and the revived evil spirit crawled out of the swamp, hugged the legs of the horse-faced demon, and entangled the evil spirit of the robbery level in place.

The overlapping footprints began to move slowly towards the horse-faced ghost's feet until the ghost's feet were completely submerged.

The swamp rose, and black gas floated up along the ghost catcher's legs. The group of ghosts following the ghost catcher turned into black gas and sank, merging with the swamp, trying to swallow the ghost catcher.

Ghosts are dancing wildly and hundreds of demons are coming out at night.

However, there is a huge gap between the disaster level and the catastrophe level.

The ghost just lifted his foot lightly, and the swamp of ghosts that entangled it was torn apart in an instant.

Painful and hideous faces flashed through the black air, and were shattered one by one by the powerful murderous aura of the ghost catcher.

As the heavy rain rushed over the ghost's figure, his body switched between virtual and real.

When the evil ghost's body turned into illusion, the rain pierced through it like arrows; and when the ghost's body became solid, it was extremely hard, and the ghost rain was immediately shaken into rain mist and dissipated in all directions.

The ghost holding the lantern stood there for a long while, his figure swayed, leaving behind a faint afterimage of resentment.

The ghosts in the swamp rushed forward and shared the afterimage.

At the same time, the ghost who had left the original place appeared in mid-air, stretched out his hand and grabbed the void - a strange thing happened, the scattered raindrops seemed to be grasped by it.

The raindrops, like scattered bead curtains, were gathered into a bundle by it and were struggling desperately in the air.

The evil spirit of the Horse-Faced Monster seeped into the rain, and the water droplets turned from gray to black, from thin to thick, and gradually turned into a bituminous liquid, dripping down along the Horse-Faced Monster's palm.

As it flowed, the dark liquid slowly transformed into a sallow face of a dead person.

The evil ghost in Wenxing County has revealed itself.

Judging from the clothes the ghost was wearing, it still had the logo of the Demon Suppression Bureau during its lifetime. The damaged Soul and Life Book of the Demon Suppression Bureau was hung like a jade pendant on its waist.

The source of this ghost disaster is now clear.

Just as everyone had guessed before, the evil spirit from the Demon Suppression Division was resurrected.

Afterwards, the source of the disaster quickly spread to the towns and villages under the jurisdiction of Wenxing County through the officials who went to various places to collect taxes. After several months, the evil spirit quickly advanced.

However, Zhu Guangling of Shangyang County did not respond, which almost led to the destruction of Wenxing County.

The moment the Yincha Mamian caught the evil spirit, the law started to take effect.

The evil ghost in Wenxing County had his head pinched off.

The Horse-Faced Guard put the ghost's head on top of his head, and the ghost's head immediately hid under the horse's head and disappeared without a trace in an instant - indicating that the power of the evil ghost was quickly swallowed up by it.

After the ghost was decomposed by the ghost catcher, its rank dropped rapidly.

As the rank of the ghost was lowered, the rain that had shrouded Wenxing County for nearly half a year stopped immediately.

The haze began to dissipate, and the sky could be vaguely seen through the ghostly fog that had not yet dissipated.

Once the source of the ghost disaster was eliminated, the disaster of a large number of evil spirits resurrected due to the ghost rain still existed.

The swamp formed by these evil spirits did not dissipate.

If they are left in the human world, these evil spirits that should not belong to the human world will still follow the rules, search for the footprints they left in their previous lives, and walk the paths they once walked when they were alive.

Once a living person accidentally steps on them, he will be marked by the evil spirit.

Zhao Fusheng opened up hell and took all the ghosts gathered together into hell.

Just when the ghosts were being collected and sent to hell, a reminder from the Investiture of the Gods sounded: It is easy to collect ghosts but difficult to subdue them.

There are too many evil spirits imprisoned at present, which has exceeded the capacity of the sixth layer of hell. Please open the seventh layer of hell as soon as possible.

As the Investiture of the Gods prompted, as the ghosts were taken in one by one, Zhao Fusheng's merit value was also increasing rapidly.

In the blink of an eye, her merit value has increased to 233752.

Zhao Fusheng opened the seventh level of hell without hesitation.

The deterrent power of hell increased again, sweeping all the evil spirits in.

……

As the evil ghost was imprisoned, the ghost energy dissipated, leaving mud all over the ground. After this battle, Zhao Fusheng's merit value soared to 344952.

Once the evil spirits were eradicated, she asked the ghost to return to his place.

If it was a ghost messenger from earlier, it would naturally be easier to invite the god than to send him away.

Whenever she summoned the ghost messenger with merit points, it was the fastest. However, when she wanted to send the ghost messenger back to the divine position, Zhao Fusheng could feel the slowness of the ghost messenger's movements every time.

But this time when she asked the Yinchai to return to his position again, the Yinchai moved much faster.

Her 30 merit points have a great deterrent effect on evil spirits.

The ghost returned to his divine position and his figure slowly disappeared into the air.

Until this time, the ghost disaster that had plagued Wenxing County for more than half a year was finally "completely" eliminated.

Ding Datong and others felt like they were on a roller coaster.

When people first saw evil spirits running rampant in Wenxing County and forming a swamp to surround the ghost officials, everyone was afraid and thought that a disaster was about to happen.

However, when the ghost catcher became so powerful that he shattered the swamp and forced the evil spirits in the ghost rain to show themselves, Zhao Fusheng became worried that the ghost catcher would lose control and he would not be able to clean up the mess.

Fortunately, none of these terrible consequences occurred.

The ghost catcher separated the ghosts in the ghost rain, and the swamp of ghosts did not get out of control. Zhao Fusheng subdued these evil ghosts one by one.

The broken ghost body was suppressed by her, and the released ghost was also taken back into her body.

Suddenly the rain stopped and the clouds dispersed, and the morning sun shone through the haze of Wenxing County into the traumatized county seat, meaning that new hope had returned to this city that had almost become a ghost town.

Once the ghost disaster was resolved, everyone was in the mood to clean up the aftermath.

A large amount of gold and silver was found in the treasury - these should have been Zhao Fusheng's spoils of war, but in the end she decided to keep the money to rebuild Wenxing County.

There is also stored grain in the county government. Later, Zhong Yao and the other two will issue notices and distribute it to ordinary people according to Zhao Fusheng’s instructions before leaving.

Because the two cows and one mule borrowed from Huangma Town all died due to ghost disasters, she asked Zhong Yao to calculate the price of the cows and mules, and then sent someone to return them to Huangma Town to resolve the cause and effect.

The county was in chaos and Qian Fa's relatives had disappeared. His journey as a guide stopped here. He would get a portion of the reward from Zhong Yao for guiding them and then return home.

The surviving boatmen recruited by Ding Datong have become terrified of ghosts after experiencing a series of ghost cases.

Their original plan was to travel with the ship and escort the important figures of the Demon Suppression Division into Shangyang County.

However, plans cannot keep up with changes. Now that the ship is destroyed and the ghost fetus has "disappeared", their mission can be considered accomplished.

After a brief discussion, Zhao Fusheng handed the right of choice to these people. They had experienced the ghost disaster and traveled for several days, and they were already exhausted.

After learning that Wenxing County was temporarily stable and that they would receive certain subsidies from the county government if they settled in the county seat, everyone discussed it and no longer wanted to follow Zhao Fusheng and the others.

Everyone expressed their willingness to settle down in Wenxing County.

With the post-disaster reconstruction funds issued by the county government and the additional compensation promised by Zhao Fusheng, these people were able to gain a foothold in Wenxing County.

When spring comes and the seeds are planted, there will be new hope for harvest next year.

……

In the carriage, Ding Datong secretly looked at Zhao Fusheng who was lost in thought.

After a month of getting along, when he thought he had a little understanding of Zhao Fusheng, the mysterious Wan'an County Magistrate always broke his original cognition and made some actions that subverted Ding Datong's original expectations.

She loves money and power, and she doesn't shy away from it.

In Zhao Fusheng's own words, the purpose of his trip to Beijing was to be granted the title of Jin general and to ask for a salary from the court.

Ding Datong could understand the title of 'Golden General'.

After all, as human beings, power and benefits are always the ultimate pursuits that people cannot avoid.

But for ghost riders, money comes too easily.

It would be easy for a person with extraordinary strength to amass wealth, but a person with Zhao Fusheng's strength always gave Ding Datong a feeling of poverty...

I thought the wealth of Wenxing County would make her happy, but contrary to Ding Dacheng's expectations, she did not take the money, but generously asked Zhong Yao to distribute it.

Too strange!
But besides feeling strange, Ding Datong also had an inexplicable sense of identification with Zhao Fusheng's behavior, but he couldn't explain why.

After worrying for a while, he finally couldn't help but ask:
"Sir, don't you want money? Why don't you want the money from Wenxing County?"

As soon as he asked the question, the heavy stone in his heart fell to the ground:
"The people from the Demon Suppression Division of Wenxing County are dead. These are ownerless things. Those who are capable can get them. Even if you move away, there is no place for you—"

After Ding Datong finished asking, Wu Shaochun and others turned their eyes to him and then to Zhao Fusheng.

Meng Po also turned her head and stared at Zhao Fusheng.

Everyone knew what kind of person Zhao Fusheng was, and they had long guessed what choice she would make, but no one had thought about the reasons behind it. When Ding Datong asked this question, everyone was curious about Zhao Fusheng's answer.

Zhao Fusheng laughed and asked instead of answering:

“What does money mean?”

"Money means--" Ding Datong was stunned by her question, and then subconsciously wanted to answer, but when he opened his mouth, he didn't know how to start.

Zhao Fusheng smiled slightly and said:

"Money can buy rice, cloth, and shelter, ensuring that we don't have to sleep in the open."

"Yeah."

Jiang Ying nodded:

"You can also buy chores, servants, and anything else you want."

When the people in the carriage heard this, they all nodded.

Meng Po and Liu Yizhen looked at each other, smiled, and said nothing.

"For me, satisfying the basic needs of food, clothing, shelter and transportation is the foundation of survival." Zhao Fusheng thought for a moment: "As for what Jiang Ying mentioned about buying servants, I think this is a derivative of power."

"..."

When Jiang Ying heard this, he was stunned.

After a while, everyone thought about it and nodded:
"Yes."

"And I already have the power," she said calmly.

She can control ghosts, and this trip from Changping County to Shangyang County has fully demonstrated her strength.

……

Ding Datong's face showed a thoughtful look.

Everyone was silent for a while, and the Lu family members sat on tiptoe obediently without saying a word.

After a long time, Meng Po broke her silence and turned the topic back to the Wenxing County ghost case itself:
"Sir, this ghost disaster in Wenxing County——"

When she mentioned the ghost disaster in Wenxing County, Ding Datong quickly freed his mind from his previous entanglement.

"I also think this case is a bit strange." Wu Shaochun said, scratching his cheek.

"Me too." Fan Bisi nodded.

Hu Rong looked around in shock.

He couldn't put into words what was so strange about this case, but seeing that Ding Datong looked serious, Wu Shaochun and Meng Po both mentioned the case, and Tao Lifang and Jiang Ying also seemed to be thinking about something, it seemed that he was out of place because he had no doubts.

Just as he was feeling a little nervous, he saw from the corner of his eye that Fan Wujiu also had a confused look on his face. He immediately felt relieved, but then he frowned and looked serious.

"What's so strange about this case?"

Fan Wujiu was puzzled and said:

"The evil spirit has been dealt with by adults."

Wu Shaochun hesitated:
"The ghost in Wenxing County has been solved, but, but I always feel that something is not right——"

Fan Wujiu asked:

"What's wrong?"

His question stumped Wu Shaochun.

Wu Shaochun couldn't explain it, but Liu Yizhen said:
"It's so easy."

"Oh my god." Hu Rong couldn't help but sigh, his eyes widened:
“Is this easy?”

For the people of Changping County, these few days were like passing five levels and beating six generals.

If it weren't for the people from Wan'an County, even if the people from Changping County, led by Ding Datong, could have escaped the ghost case that broke out on the boat that night,

"No, we might have died when a ghost incident broke out on the ship." Tao Lifang said calmly.

Although Ding Datong felt a little embarrassed, he nodded when he thought of the scene on the boat that night.

“Even if we don’t die, we won’t be able to survive Dongping Village.”

Everyone's strength can suppress the evil spirits of the evil level, but cannot solve the problem of the endless resurrection of evil spirits.

That night, Zhao Fusheng summoned an opera troupe to lure out ghosts, Meng Po boiled soup to send ghosts away, and Kuai Manzhou summoned Huangquan and ghost flowers to lead ghosts forward - all these methods amazed the people of Changping County.

Not to mention that later Zhao Fusheng subdued the ghost group in an instant and He Jiacun showed his skills.

Entering Wenxing County, she summoned the ghost to light a lamp to lead the way, and finally decomposed the evil ghost and successfully took the ghost back.

If there is any mistake in any of these methods, the person will be killed without a burial place.

"It's difficult, really difficult! Only because you have great means can we escape death by chance." Jiang Ying sighed.

Everyone talked for a long time, and finally their eyes fell on Zhao Fusheng.

Meng Po smiled and asked again:

"What do you think, sir?"

Let me give you a brief explanation.

I've been a bit busy lately, working on some renovations, and I feel like doing it all day long is really draining my energy.

My lack of energy prevented me from adjusting to the right state, and it seemed difficult to carve out some time for myself to tell stories.

Sometimes there is nothing fun to do on the phone, and I feel that playing with the phone is meaningless. I don’t even remember what I looked at after scrolling through it, but I still can’t put it down. Whenever I feel tired, I always want to play out of revenge, forming a vicious cycle (this state is something I need time to adjust).